The lead pack of runners in this year’s Trico League girls cross country championship race, including Columbia’s Claudia Cortez (front, left), reaches the first downhill on the 3.2-mile Husum Hills course. Cortez and the CHS girls both finished second last Wednesday in their final race before this Saturday’s Southwest District Class 1A meet in Woodland. The CHS boys placed third in their race. The course records in both races fell to La Center runners.